Japanese Medical and Technical Translation by Physicians and Engineers

診断書, 診療情報提供書 and medical records for treatment in Japan and Georgia

Georgian patients travel to Japanese hospitals - the University of Tokyo Hospital, Keio, St. Luke's, the National Cancer Center, Osaka and Kyoto university hospitals - for oncology, cardiac and neurosurgery, proton therapy, orthopedics and comprehensive check-ups (人間ドック), and Japanese medical tourism facilitators handle the referrals. Before treatment the Georgian epicrisis, imaging and histology reports, lab results and treatment protocols are translated into Japanese or English for the hospital's international office; after treatment the Japanese 診断書 (medical certificate), 診療情報提供書 (referral letter), 退院サマリー (discharge summary), 手術記録 and itemized 診療明細書 are translated into Georgian for the patient's doctor and insurer. Japanese experts, JICA volunteers and residents treated in Georgian clinics need the reverse for their doctor and the National Health Insurance. Our medical translators are practicing or former physicians; they keep ICD-10 codes, INN drug names, dosages and units exactly as written and never reinterpret a diagnosis, and they handle the mix of Japanese, English and German-derived terminology in Japanese medical records. Translations are certified for hospitals and notarized for insurers and state agencies.

Insurance, National Health Insurance and social documents

Georgian insurers require translated Japanese hospital invoices, 診断書 and prescriptions for reimbursement of treatment in Japan; Japanese private insurers and the National Health Insurance's overseas treatment reimbursement (海外療養費) require Georgian records translated into Japanese on the prescribed forms, which we complete. Cross-border social documents - 診断書 for sick leave, 障害者手帳 documents, maternity documents, Japan Pension Service medical assessments - are translated and notarized for Georgian employers, the Revenue Service and the Social Service Agency, and for Japanese authorities. These files mix clinical and administrative content, so a physician translates the medical part and a legal specialist checks the administrative wording.

Clinical trials, PMDA registration and medical devices

Japanese pharmaceutical and medical device companies register products in Georgia and occasionally run trials at Georgian sites, and Georgian manufacturers look at the Japanese market. We translate 治験実施計画書 (protocols), 説明文書 and 同意文書 (patient information and consent forms, with back-translation for ethics committees), 治験薬概要書 (investigator brochures), case report forms and safety reports between Japanese and Georgian or from English into both, and for registration the 添付文書 (package insert), 製品情報, certificate of pharmaceutical product, GMP certificates and PMDA approval documents. For medical devices we translate 取扱説明書, technical documentation and conformity declarations, keeping terminology aligned with PMDA and MHLW language on one side and the Georgian regulator's on the other.

JICA infrastructure: roads, energy, water and disaster risk reduction

JICA-financed projects in Georgia - the East-West Highway sections, hydropower and transmission, water supply and sanitation, and disaster risk reduction programs - are designed and supervised by Japanese engineering consultants and built by contractors under JICA's guidelines, and the documentation runs to thousands of pages: feasibility studies, detailed designs, technical specifications, 施工計画書 (method statements), 品質管理計画書 (quality plans), inspection and test plans, 竣工図書 (as-built documentation), operation and maintenance manuals, and the 安全衛生 (HSE) system - risk assessments, 作業手順書, 作業許可, 事故報告書 - for mixed Japanese and Georgian crews. We translate between Japanese, Georgian and English with civil, mechanical and electrical engineers on the team, maintain project glossaries agreed with the consultants, deliver in the original formats, and staff large submittals as a team so a 500-page O&M manual is translated and reviewed on the project schedule.

Equipment manuals, vehicles, JIS standards and patents

Japanese vehicles, construction machinery, agricultural equipment, electronics, HVAC, industrial and medical equipment operate across Georgia, and Georgian operators, inspectors and customs need documentation in Georgian; used Japanese cars, a large share of Georgia's fleet, arrive with Japanese 車検証 and auction sheets that the Service Agency and buyers need translated. We translate 取扱説明書 and 整備マニュアル, 技術資料, 安全データシート (SDS) and spare parts catalogs, keeping part numbers and warning symbols intact and delivering in the original layout. JIS (Japanese Industrial Standards), ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 and 27001 certificates, audit reports and 品質マニュアル are translated for tenders, for Japanese customers auditing Georgian suppliers and for certification bodies; 試験成績書, 校正証明書 and 適合宣言書 for laboratories and regulators; and Japanese-language patent applications entering Georgia through Sakpatenti require Georgian translations of the 明細書, 特許請求の範囲 and 要約書 in patent language, with the reverse for Georgian applicants filing at the JPO.

Drawings, catalogs and quality control

Engineering drawings in AutoCAD DWG and DXF and PDF plan sets carry 表題欄 (title blocks), notes and legends that must be translated without disturbing the drawing; we work inside the files and return them with layers, blocks and dimensions intact, and can deliver trilingual Japanese-Georgian-English drawing sets for JICA projects. カタログ, 仕様書 and technical proposals are translated with attention to units, tolerances and material grades and laid out in your design files, with Japanese typography, full-width characters and line-breaking checked in the rendered file. Every medical and technical file passes through a subject specialist, a second bilingual reviewer and a numerical check comparing units, decimal separators, dosages, part numbers and reference ranges line by line against the source, with attention to Japanese number grouping by ten thousand (万) and era dates on certificates. Source errors are flagged rather than silently corrected, glossaries are agreed before bulk work begins, and certificates of accuracy and notarization are available for regulators, insurers and courts.

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